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for a little. welcome back to our weekly news review in just two days to christmas now in festive shoppers are racing through decorated streets to step up at last minute gifts for their loved ones but a season of goodwill isn't stretching to those beneath the bright lights and tinsel whose only christmas wishes for a hot meal and a place to sleep and saltines miniport now in washington d.c. . a match in a country with no homeless people i know it's not the most festive or jolly like

question to ask during the holiday season but see here in the u.s. nearly six hundred and thirty four thousand people went homeless last year and as it turns out just a sliver of the money american spent on blinking lights tinsel bright stars and shiny presents could actually end the nation's homelessness epidemic. is she. is the way. there is the only word is they waste their decoration you kidding me. imagine how much they can do for a lawyer with low income housing with that kind of money that's what people need housing is all for show us and a lot a lot of very desperate people on the streets in new york texas wherever i mean it's it really is a sad situation and i think we can all do better you know maybe sometimes people go a little overboard you know we want to we all be in the christmas spirit but i

guess there's other things that you could be doing with your money six billion dollars spent just on flights and all and all that because people want to get into the spirit right and they want to forget about all the ugliness in the world and that's not right they need to remember the homeless as well we came here for this time and we're all wrapped up in it but when you point that out it's a shame you know top white house officials say that the government would need an annual budget of twenty billion dollars to effectively eliminate homelessness by twenty twenty and top of the obama administration however even though that money sounds like a lot we should put it into perspective according to the national retail federation americans spent more than six billion dollars on christmas decorations last year and holiday sales reached a reported four hundred and seventy billion dollars so in this season of giving as a. arrogance are spending in the cloud of holiday spirit they could essentially be

curing a huge social problem that continues to plague the nation reporting from new york very hearty. went searching through some of today's world news now starting with india where hundreds of people have clashed with police defying a ban on protests for anger began a student on a train dozens are reported injured in the latest violence protest his own demanding the death penalty for the five suspects who attacked the girl need emergency surgery after her ordeal used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators who tried to breach the barricades in the center of new delhi. rancho rains have ruined christmas for many people in the u.k. was supposed to be the getaway weekend this left many stranded as floods ravaged parts of the south west of england cutting off communities and canceling trains home for the holidays and it's not over yet forecasters predict yet more heavy rain while more than five hundred cloud alerts and warnings have been issued nationwide

. south korea's defense ministry believes the north korean rocket launched earlier this month was a ballistic missile so claims a long distance rocket could reach the u.s. examining parts of it which landed and it's going to the north maintains it was only launching a weather satellite. but there was an infinitely more popular rocket launch this week three new cream members successfully blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday and after a two day trip they docked with the international space station to begin their six month stint in orbit with more than one hundred scientific experiments along with space walks and taking cargo shipments around the crew's tight shuttle potties tom barton has the story. a farewell guitar music was in the air as the next crews the international space station said their

last goodbyes to. it'll be in the cockpit to says the ice s. is next commander chris hadfield and actually when we're sitting on the launch pad inside our soyuz there will be music playing both to to warm up our bodies and to warm our hearts while the music will be a comfort there is months of work ahead on the station i.s.a.'s missions like technical and scientific symphonies on duty for the mission and for their spirits these crew like to be better things nicely. for the families this time is as nerve wracking as it is exciting chris hadfield's wife say she'll still feel connected to him on it's up there again through music but like daily if you're here if you like to be playing so much music that you're good part of it's life and then it work life you know they were sure that no play lots of surveys that yes there's a speck corner on my s.s.

for a trusty guitar. but being away from home at the most special time christmas surely that is hard to come when i'm out in space i start to feel homesick i'll probably do what i do on earth and that is to. to open up my guitar and. play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy. tom watson r t baikonur. stay with r.t. for president putin's a q. and a media marathon after the break.

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again. but it. needs. in retaliation for the magnitsky act the state duma passed of the old and us citizens from adopting russian orphans do you think this is an appropriate response just doesn't bother us children even the most deprived and helpless children are used as a tool in a political. stunt system in the skit but no. it was first of all you say this was in retaliation for the magnitsky so let me say a couple of warts first about this law school and what i think about it and i have

spoken on this subject before but i would like to retrace my views on this matter the bees will not and this is certainly an on a friendly russian attack and this is not about banning some officials from having a bank account it's all the property abroad the point is they replaced one anti-social russian on bill with another is the man you just can't let go of the past and this is a very good at least poison our relationship now to be sure you were raised and option of russian children by foreigners some of which far as i know opinion polls indicate look at an overwhelming majority of russian people are very negative about foreigners adopting our children we should do it ourselves should encourage the dogshit of russian orphans or abandoned children by russian families that has for the us number problem is not with the people who adopt russian children which of course there were some tragic incidents that we are aware of but that the vast

majority of people who adopt russian children are kind and decent people would be so the state duma does not have a problem with those people the problem is with the position of the us authorities and what is their position when adopted russian the children are mistreated but i would use courts often ignore these crimes and let the offenders go unpunished if they even don't allow russian officials be present at the trials as observed. what is that concerns us. so much on the by your rights of even mates in russian jails. that's a good cause they have many problems in their own country like i said infamous prison and i'm afraid i mean one ton of people are kept here without any charges this is all creatures not only to the keep people there without a charge they keep them in chains like in the middle ages but i believe that

legalized torture in their own country. magine what it would be like if anything like that happen in our country they want to get off our vast reasonable enough there would be a media circus all over the world but when they did nobody says only working to go to work on that how many times did they promise to close guantanamo yet it is still there the prison is still functioning. and we don't know they might still be torturing people they're. also. run by the cia. have they managed the people responsible for that. they want to tell us about our problems thank you we're well aware of that but using that as if it were to pass an anti russian bill taught outrageous and uncalled for. mr president i'm alexander. porter for argument's sake i'm adoptive parent myself i

mean regardless of the foreign policy context i consider yesterday's event by the state jima excessive unreasonable cannibalistic if you will excuse me the people who adopted this know at telling us that we already have enough money to look after all friends in our country and we have plenty of aspiring adoptive parents for the tens of thousand other children not exactly true. it's absolutely not true prime minister medvedev has said policies and programs. are still little you're interested my personal experience for three years that our entire system is going to talk to the parents as i knew since. my personal great. where we were confronted with the grading or unlawful treatment for no particular reason i'm sorry for asking three questions instead of one i do hope some of my colleagues will also be specific questions regarding our judicial system i see

blank you. are as yesterday's act is concerned i have already laid out my own. i strongly disagree with first of all i would like to read. this is not about specific people it was about the general attitude of american authorities over the record to emergency situations where children get victimized or have their rights infringed upon such. cases are well known and so is the typical reaction by american authorities simply deny access to russian representatives when they want even allow them into court as observers which they did not i consider it unacceptable what do you think what they do is your property without them with us how can it be proper when they. do you enjoy their us sadomasochists or something. they shouldn't our country anyway if it's true that we need to improve our own system. besides we're not banning you doctrine by foreign nationals as such

other countries apart from the united states. you know in some states they won't admit international election observers to polling stations do you like that. then why do you choose this kind of language with a law such as cannibalistic you have adopted a child and i truly respect that and i hope that many more people will follow your example if you really are a decent person to get it done that it's true and i know what i'm saying for us or our judiciary may be excessively scrupulous when examining adoption applications largely to fans after personal qualities i would judge presiding over a specific case. but i remember how my good friend and former counterpart used their gerhard schroder and opted to wrestle children when it came to courting st petersburg but the judge asked them specifically how does he were elder the daughter if you live. and when the girl replied why would anybody ask my opinion of

the judge insisted on asking your opinion if you don't want it but i will not permit it so that makes a lot of sense because each family member must make their personal decision and the judicial system essentially relies upon this principle to a strict but fair because there is a separate. problem and that is when adoptive parents terminate the dog once they have adopted a child there has been a significant number of such cases a simplified approach is not appropriate here and. society must be clear as to whether an aspiring adoptive parent is capable of raising and sustaining a child what their government provided benefits will be sufficient to provide for a child those are criterial bitstream. mr president what if you journalists have gathered here which will have a lot of questions to ask the government to most people and it is first and

foremost you call him by the calendar over the twelve years you have built a tough believe an authoritarian regime of personal pollinators you know how vital the think the system you know the twentieth century or perhaps it hinders russia's development. i believe we have been able to ensure stability this is a necessary prerequisite for development but i can't call it a system authoritarian i can't agree with the statement of the most conclusive so that it was my decision to take to the sidelines after my two consecutive turns as president if i thought that an authoritarian or to tell a tarion system was the best choice for us i would have simply amended the constitution but it was easy to do that one doesn't even need a nationwide referendum to do that it would have been sufficient to get adopted in parliament where we enjoyed a majority of over three hundred votes stepping in was

a totally conscious decision to both ensure a continuity of power ensure respect for our country's constitution and its main laws. naturally back then i couldn't say for sure i would come back in four years especially since a crisis and no one knew where it would go so that would have been a plain absurd but we all had to make it through tough times. so there is no way i would be calling the system or thora tarion but if somebody may believe that democracy and observing laws are two different things they're highly delusional. first and foremost about observed in los angeles but the anarchy of the nineteenth largely discredited both market economy and democracy is such a fearful of them both of these are different things so i believe that in no way does order discipline or observation of the law run counter to a democratic government. because i'd like to ask you about the situation in syria

as you know western countries there about turkey of the whole they all think that bashar laughs at moscow as well otherwise they say it is impossible to have a thin ice in syria but trust it does not agree with this do you think this may leave russia isolated and eventually russia may lose its position on syria and even then time middle east. will it will well has russia lost its position and when after all the mess that the intervention forces created there. i don't know what their motives were but the country's falling apart ethnic strife conflicts between tribes what continues because actually even the us ambassador there wasn't any call this kind of work at that. somebody asked me about my mistakes earlier don't you think this was a mistake if you want us to repeat such mistakes in other countries he began again . what we care for is not the future of the acid rain we are fully aware of what is

going on there you know that we realize that his family has been in power for forty years but it was so change is long overdue you believe we're more concerned about what will happen next which we don't want the opposition of once it comes to power if i think current authorities will become the opposition because this will go on forever with each and of course we care about our positions in this region and this region is close to us. but what we care about is not just our interests there actually we don't have an issue especially interest there we have almost no interest or do we have any particular economic relations with those countries no we don't. do you think president has been visiting moscow frequently.

they should start existing system not by submersible but only if they can overthrow the government and then try to come to an agreement i don't think that agreements based on military victories are inappropriate. and i don't think they will be a threat to the. and as regards what may happen there is up to the people of syria themselves. he.

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orthopedic is good for you is that often the nine hundred fifty s. these frames very nice we used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was not of was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives were the main goal when professing the result of design his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later season invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies life both literally and figuratively a bogus third of patients admitted to be was out of center nowadays seeking surgery focused magic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertical. challenge professor novick of who operated on many of them says it

usually comes down to man's pride. the first patient he turned to us with a leg length to me a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because his partner was too than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lawyers fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have

brought me right to every one of the average for women height is an important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think it's like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still went ahead with the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for an hour so. what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

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